Albuquerque police believe a man arrested in connection with a killing last month was also involved in a deadly shootout at a smoke shop two years ago.

Target 7 obtained video of the deadly shootout from 2012. Police said Daryl Martinez and his friend, Ramon Sedillo, pointed a gun at the clerk, but the clerk was also armed and shot the two suspects.

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Sedillo died. Martinez was also shot, but took off and was later arrested.

According to court records, he served two years of probation for that crime. Within months, police arrested him again on meth charges. He served a year behind bars in a juvenile facility and eventually got out.

Then in September, officers arrested Martinez in connection with yet another crime -- murder. Police believe he shot and killed a man over a $1 drug debt in northeast Albuquerque.

"The problem is a lack of treatment for drug addiction in this state. Then on top of that, the lack of the courts to hold those people with their feet to the fire if they fail to get the treatment that is eventually assigned to them," said APD spokesman Tanner Tixier.

Martinez is no longer a juvenile and is now behind bars at the Metro Detention Center. He has pleaded not guilty on the murder case and is due back in court in December.